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Mark 7:9

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Wisely do you set aside God's commandments," he exclaimed, "to keep your own traditions!

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In this way you nullify the words of God by your traditions, which you hand down; and you do many similar things."

(For the Pharisees, and indeed all strict Jews, will not eat without first scrupulously washing their hands, holding in this to the traditions of their ancestors.

So the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law asked Jesus this question--"How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?"

Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law.

For, if some new-comer is proclaiming a Jesus other than him whom we proclaimed, or if you are receiving a Spirit different from the Spirit which you received, or a Good News different from that which you welcomed, then you are marvelously tolerant!

And how, in my devotion to Judaism, I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my own people in my intense earnestness in upholding the traditions of my ancestors.

I do not reject the love of God. If righteousness comes through Law, then there was no need for Christ to die!

Who so opposes himself to every one that is spoken of as a God or as an object of worship, and so exalts himself above them, that he seats himself in the Temple of God, and displays himself as God!




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